Wedding Design: Beer Favor Tags

More wedding favor tags! This design has been rolling around in my head, ever since I designed the original version for my friend’s wedding. I wanted to create a version with the same wording, but that would fit a more casual wedding event and be the perfect fit for anyone giving out bottles of beer as guest gifts. Place your order through my Etsy shop.

Wedding Design: “Oh Happy Day” Favor Tags

I have long thought that the phrase “Oh Happy Day” is a perfect sentiment for a wedding day. There is so much excitement on that day, one cannot help but smile. That is part of the reason why I enjoy photographing and designing for weddings so much! I created these favor tags with that in mind and to spread the joy to guests. These favor tags are now available in my Etsy shop as digital templates.

Wedding Design: Watercolor Greenery Favor tags

A beautiful trend I’ve been seeing for weddings and bridal showers is soft watercolors and decorations made of leaves and greenery. Both elements add an elegant touch to the event and are such a great compliment to other decorative elements. I’ve not added new watercolored greenery favor tags are now available in my Etsy shop as easy-to-use digital templates.

Event Design: Watercolor Favor Tags

So many new designs are coming! I’m focusing on all the small details that make an event unique, whether it is a bridal shower, baby shower, wedding or birthday celebration. First up are some watercolored favor tags, designed as easy-to-use digital templates. Visit my Etsy shop for more details.

Wedding Decor: Denise & Jared (St Helena, California)

I really enjoy being able to design for weddings beyond the invitation and work on all the little touches that personalize the wedding day itself. Once the wedding invitation was in the mail, there were a bunch of items to make for Denise and Jared’s winery wedding. It was quite the variety, from hand-lettered signage, to favor hang tags. My personal favorite was the bar signs, so much fun (and gold ink)!

Probably the best thing about working on this wedding was being able to make the day beautiful for my friends. I really enjoyed brainstorming with the bride and the groom and bringing back the finished pieces that fit right into their vision for their special day.

Wedding Invitation: Denise & Jared

I’d been hoping these two would tie the knot for some time now. When they were ready to walk down the aisle, I got to help make their wedding day extra special (and be a guest at their wedding). We started early, working together to build a custom wedding invitation set that tied into their St. Helena vineyard wedding. The final set was so much fun to put together!

I got to have some fun creating the wine glass stains from scratch with watercolors and combining a bunch of different elements the bride and groom liked to create one unique wedding set. My favorite little piece, requested by the bride, is the heart etched into the wine barrel illustration on the back side of the invitation card. So creative!

Wedding Decor: the Hajdukovics

Another wedding full of personalized items! So glad to have these projects come my way and add some custom pieces to such an exciting day. Congratulations to the Hajdukovics!

A very unique seating chart – each table was designated a different board game, since it’s one of the couple’s favorite pastimes. Keeping board games in play (ha, see what I did there?), their guestbook was pieces of the Jenga game that guests personalized.

Wedding Decor: the Grohs

Wedding decorations are always fun, because each couple has different ideas about what touches they want to include at their wedding. For this wedding, there were a bunch of signs to make and a very unique piece shown at the end. I also got to bring out some different skill sets to put all these elements together. Congratulations to the Grohs!

This was the most interesting piece to me – a quilt block. The couple decided to have guests sign a piece of fabric, later to be made into a keepsake quilt, rather than a traditional guest book. I was asked to paint a rose in their wedding colors that would be the centerpiece of the entire quilt, which I was definitely happy to do.

Wedding Decor: Andrea & Scott

My favorite part about weddings (besides the photography, of course) is how much they can be personalized to fit the bride and groom’s vision for their big day. I absolutely love small touches that make weddings feel unique, and get really excited when I’m the one who gets to create those pieces. Once the wedding invitation calligraphy was finished, Andrea (the bride) and I started discussing other elements for the wedding. She had some projects in mind for the reception and bridal party gifts, and I was more than happy to work on them for her. My absolute favorite project was the seating chart, designed on an old window!

Wedding Decor: Shauna & Steve

After designing one of my favorite wedding invitations for Shauna and Steve, there were some great ideas for matching items for the wedding ceremony and reception. I designed signs, custom photo booth strips, table numbers, programs, favors and escort cards. My absolute favorite piece was the favors/escort cards. They wanted to do custom Jones Soda labels as their favors, using my engagement photos of them, with tags that would double as escort cards. I letterpressed each card and then added the calligraphy for names and table numbers. They definitely turned out top notch!

Special thanks to Jamie Jones Photography for letting me use the last four photos from the event!